R.A. Bob Hoover THE GIFT

These early insights into flying - and life itself - formed a template that Bob Hoover followed throughout a storied career in which he flew more than 300 types of aircraft and met, interacted, and in some cases flew with, a virtual who’s who of aviation’s first century, including Orville Wright, Eddie Rickenbacker, Charles Lindbergh, Jacquelin Cochran, Bud Anderson, Neil Armstrong and Yuri Gagarin.